army1987 comments on Why Eat Less Meat? - Less Wrong

48 Post author: peter_hurford 23 July 2013 09:30PM

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Comment author: [deleted] 24 July 2013 11:53:16AM 0 points [-]

Personally I never found 4. convincing at all

Do you think the kind of pain I feel while (say) eating spicy foods is bad whether or not I dislike it?

Comment author: Lukas_Gloor 24 July 2013 11:59:00AM 8 points [-]

I think the word "pain" is misleading. What I care about precisely is suffering, defined as a conscious state a being wants to get out of. If you don't dislike it and don't have an urge to make it stop, it's not suffering. This is also why I think the "pain" of people with pain asymbolia is not morally bad.